• 'Remarkable' decline in fertility rates
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That is a positive aspect of it of course, as it is true that the worst possible thing you can do to the environment is to have children. But there are problems regarding intergenerational accounting. Eg in their infinite wisdom when they set up social security in the US back in the 30’s, they moronically structured it like a ponzi scheme where current workers fund (via taxes) the pensions of current retirees. It wasn’t so bad in the 60’s when you had 5 workers for every retiree. But in the next few decades, that ratio will be closer to 2 to 1. It’s unsustainable.
Yes please. We can't keep increasing the population on our planet, it simply won't work.
immigrants irregardless of origin tend to have more kids than the norm, in the US our declining fertility isn't tied to any disinsentives to kids or social norms like Japan, people are just practicing better safe sex and women are generally on contraceptives for both medical and personal reasons. Japan, ya they have some serious social and cultural issues regarding sex that should have been fixed 30 years ago and have now screwed themselves over but again, immigration would go a long way to helping raise birthrates.
You can't. It's been literally impossible for me and my now ex-wife. Once we separated it got even worse because I lost my job and house. I literally wouldn't be able to raise my son without help from my parents, and same with her. But, they were the same way. My grandparents helped my parents.
While that is true in some places in the world, don't be fooled by xenophobes that use exactly that excuse to push their anti-immigrant views. We have so many ignorant and selfish assholes (mostly from rural areas with a high concentration of barely educated people) that do this here.
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